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Summary: Excellent title, however for beginners
Review: This is one of the best Wrox titles on ASP/ASP.NET for beginners. Even though, I wrote ASP and ASP.NET for a few years now, it is still good as a refresher. Sure, a few things on .NET Framework especially, are not explained in detail, but its a beginner book. Plus, I loved that it does less advertising of MS .NET and goes straight to coding. Definite recommend.
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Summary: Good for beginners to ASP or those wanting a refresh
Review: This volume is suited to the beginner and is therefore a fairly simple book to work through. A desirable prerequisite, while not mandatory, would be some basic HTML web page development experience using both Forms and Tables. A previous knowledge of ASP is not a requirement.The book provides a good introduction into coding many areas of ASP.NET without delving too much into the Microsoft .NET Framework itself. It uses the WROX style of "Try It Out" to get you used to the code, followed by a detailed explanation and description of "How It Works". The experienced classic ASP developer will find little of interest in the first few chapters but it is an easy read and you can quickly move through it concentrating on areas of interest. Having said that if you haven't done much OOP (Object-Oriented Programming) then you should review Chapters 8 and 9 as the entire .NET Framework is based on objects. If you've been working on ASP for some time and already have a basic understanding of how ASP.NET operates then you should look to a more advanced book such as "Professional ASP.NET" also by WROX. The only negative I found was that it has more than the customary level of typos but I personally don't believe it detracted that much. The errata on the WROX site should be downloaded to indicate the more important publishing errors. In summary, this book is targetted at beginners. As an experienced web developer I found it an easy read and gave me the opportunity to refresh some of the knowledge I hadn't used recently while giving me a quick INTRO into the .NET version of ASP.
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Summary: Decent start, but it needs to be updated badly
Review: We used this book for a class that we were running for work. I would say that it is a decent book considering the time it was written, but now there should be better books out there. It doesn't cover code behind until very late in the book which is a fundamental improvement that should've been covered much earlier. Also, there are some errors in this book that are not addresses in the eratta, and the Visual Studio .NET IDE is not covered in this book. The authors use archaic techniques to do things that a VS .NET developer would do in the IDE, like compiling a library file via the command prompt instead of using the IDE to make that library file. Also, it could use some more information in Web Services since this seems to be the main way that Microsoft wants you to create Enterprise solutions.
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Summary: Decent start, but it needs to be updated badly
Review: We used this book for a class that we were running for work. I would say that it is a decent book considering the time it was written, but now there should be better books out there. It doesn't cover code behind until very late in the book which is a fundamental improvement that should've been covered much earlier. Also, there are some errors in this book that are not addresses in the eratta, and the Visual Studio .NET IDE is not covered in this book. The authors use archaic techniques to do things that a VS .NET developer would do in the IDE, like compiling a library file via the command prompt instead of using the IDE to make that library file. Also, it could use some more information in Web Services since this seems to be the main way that Microsoft wants you to create Enterprise solutions.
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Summary: Couldn't recommend this to anyone
Review: While I have historically been a Wrox Press fan (12+ books thusfar), this book deviates from the usual quality and is overall a complete disappointment. I reviewed this book as an experienced developer seeking .NET materials for my staff. The approach to major topics is suitable for fledgling developers and is generally well stated. However, the overall lack of editing quality - in the form of numerous typos, dangling sentence fragments, and incorrect code references - is likely to frustrate rather than encourage. Perhaps a future, revised edition will clear these mistakes, but the lack of diligence on apprentice material leaves me to consider alternative publishers for "growth path" books.
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